Question

995. Rank order clustering as applied to manufacturing automation is what​

Answer 1

In operations management and industrial engineering, production flow analysis refers to methods which share the following characteristics:

Classification of machines

Technological cycles information control

Generating a binary product-machines matrix (1 if a given product requires processing in a given machine, 0 otherwise)

Methods differ on how they group together machines with products. These play an important role in designing manufacturing cells.